Re: Mooney qualified instructor
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:33 pm
I didn't read your thread a first time; why would I want to re-read it?
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As you, I too greatly value a breadth of experience much more than a depth of experience in one specialty, or an "instructors" rating.The notions expressed repeatedly on this site that a wide spectrum experience is worthless compared to a Flight Instructor Rating as a blanket measurement for teaching purposes is one I continue to disagree with.
So your checkout pilot had an instructor rating, did he? How interesting. And yet, as you put it, you survived.Rookie50 wrote:PD,
I'm quite comfortable with my choice for my last checkout of my friend, a 20k check captain with time on dozens of types. Funny enough, I recall he was concerned insurance may not approve him as his flight instructor rating wasn't current.
That notion hasn't been expressed even a single time in this thread. For that matter I don't recall reading it in any other thread, either. Feel free to continue to argue against it if you wish, though.The notions expressed repeatedly on this site that a wide spectrum experience is worthless compared to a Flight Instructor Rating as a blanket measurement for teaching purposes is one I continue to disagree with.
In fact that's what the OP asked for. I'm glad you agree it's not necessarily the right way to go.No where has anyone said choosing a pilot with time on type means blindly choosing the first pilot at the local airport with a Mooney in the hangar, either.
Yeah but don't they float a lot?2R wrote:
Once you have been shown how easy the Mooney is to fly you will know "Why birds sing "
Me too!If you fail to point and check three green on short final and say loudly on short final " SHORT FINAL THREE GREEN"
I will not sign you off for the insurance check out .
PD,PilotDAR wrote:As you, I too greatly value a breadth of experience much more than a depth of experience in one specialty, or an "instructors" rating.The notions expressed repeatedly on this site that a wide spectrum experience is worthless compared to a Flight Instructor Rating as a blanket measurement for teaching purposes is one I continue to disagree with.
Our system seems to depend upon the "new" instructor as a stepping stone, as long as we understand that everyone has the right to be new at something, but they must approach with caution and extra humility while they are. Someone telling me that they are an instructor conveys to me that they have persevered in advancing their licensing, and good for them, but gaining experience, and the skills to type train beyond basic trainers is a separate and distinct "personal growth".
I have been reading and posting on Avcanada for over 12 years and I honestly can't recall even one post that argued that "wide spectrum experience is worthless compared to a Flight Instructor Rating", so I have to ask why you seem to have such a strong generalized low opinion of all pilots who hold a flight instructor rating ?Rookie50 wrote:PD,
The notions expressed repeatedly on this site that a wide spectrum experience is worthless compared to a Flight Instructor Rating as a blanket measurement for teaching purposes is one I continue to disagree with.
I have a before landing check that always works.
Though mine must be surface appropriate: "Wheels are up for landing on water/Wheels are down for landing on land". If you can't bring yourself to actually say that out loud, once per flight, you should stick to fixed gear planes.
I have seen several such posts, essentially saying any training from non - flight instructors, no matter how experienced the teaching pilot, is overtly "dangerous", and that mentors without the rating are incapable of teaching and assumed to be poor pilots.Big Pistons Forever wrote:I have been reading and posting on Avcanada for over 12 years and I honestly can't recall even one post that argued that "wide spectrum experience is worthless compared to a Flight Instructor Rating", so I have to ask why you seem to have such a strong generalized low opinion of all pilots who hold a flight instructor rating ?Rookie50 wrote:PD,
The notions expressed repeatedly on this site that a wide spectrum experience is worthless compared to a Flight Instructor Rating as a blanket measurement for teaching purposes is one I continue to disagree with.
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Your opinion is generalized in that in most of your posts it doesn't come across that you feel that there is only a specific segment of instructors that feel the way you think they do, but rather it comes across that ALL instructors feel that way.So my "low opinion" is not generalized but specific -- to the segment of the flight instructor world that disdains mentors with years -- decades -- of line experience --
True, in that regard though I would cast a wider net, and advise anyone to do a lot of critical thinking on anything they might come across. Use Occam's Razor mercilessly if anything seems overly weird or complicated.I think the type specific knowledge value is important but more in the context of ownership, rather than the pure piloting piece.
Is this with respect to the ingredients of the laundry detergent you're considering purchasing? Or your preference for the American's next choice for President? Oh, wait, we're talking about piloting...and advise anyone to do a lot of critical thinking on anything they might come across
Well... its applicable to all those things. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and all that. In respect to airplanes, Mooneys in particular, there's a whole mythos that's grown up around them. Why birds sing? Please. That's advice for the layman: think for yourself and don't take anything anyone says as gospel. Be critical, ask questions. If an "expert" hasn't a clue why they do something, its possible and probable, that its been passed down without further investigation. That doesn't mean its wrong, but its probably somewhere in between.Is this with respect to the ingredients of the laundry detergent you're considering purchasing? Or your preference for the American's next choice for President? Oh, wait, we're talking about piloting...